Scientists, researchers, community leaders, clinicians and other professionals in the healthcare industry in Hampton Roads now have a state-of-the-art facility to collaborate on innovative projects and jump-start scientific research to address health disparities in the region.
The Hampton Roads Biomedical Research Consortium (HRBRC), a state-sponsored partnership among Old Dominion University, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Sentara Healthcare and Norfolk State University, celebrated the opening of its headquarters on April 7 at ODU Tri-cities Center in Suffolk.
HRBRC was funded by Virginia lawmakers in 2020 to advance and serve as a catalyst for emerging research and economic drivers in Hampton Roads, while also addressing the region’s significant healthcare inequity and disparities. Since its creation, the consortium has secured $10 million in government grants and has another $15 million pending.
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The region can be a hub for health care and biomedical innovation thanks to collaborative efforts to launch the Hampton Roads Biomedical Research Consortium and its research facility.
The consortium recently opened a facility located at Old Dominion University’s Tri-Cities Center on the Suffolk-Portsmouth border. Old Dominion University, Norfolk State University, Eastern Virginia Medical School and Sentara Health make up the core of the group.
NORFOLK, Va. — The Hampton Roads Biomedical Research Consortium (HRBRC) celebrated its grand opening Friday, showing off the new state-of-the-art facility.
HRBRC is a partnership between Old Dominion University (ODU), Eastern Virginia Medical School (EVMS), Sentara Healthcare and Norfolk State University (NSU).
The new facility has an “innovation and prototype lab,” which houses a digital anatomy printer that creates models replicating the same biomechanical properties as human tissue.
The new facility hopes to “understand and improve community health; fund and conduct critical projects; and develop a robust innovation pipeline in the region.”
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — Medical professionals in Hampton Roads are getting new training tools thanks to the grand opening of a state-of-the-art training facility
Hampton Roads Biomedical Research Consortium is behind the new facility.
The new facility features a digital anatomy printer that creates identical models of anything containing human tissue.
Health professionals will also soon be able to have access to a 5G living lab to practice procedures.